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Functions[edit] A function, which can also be referred to as subroutine, procedure, subprogram or even method, carries out tasks defined by a sequence of statements called a statement block that need only be written once and called by a program as many times as needed to carry out the same task.
The last three lines show you how to define your own awk function. The format is simple -- type function, then the function name, and then the parameters separated by commas, inside parentheses. After this, a { } code block contains the code that you'd like this function to execute.